Study On Professional Qualification Certificate System Implemented In Vocational Schools

This paper is based on a thorough investigation and study of the recent situation and strategies of professional qualifications certificate system (PQCS) implemented in secondary vocational schools. The study is carried out by means of such scientific methods as survey, interviews, comparisons, statistical methods and literature reviews, so the result of the study will hopefully be utilized as the theoretical foundation of PQCS establishment, macro-management and making of relevant policies for the governments They may also serve as practicable theoretical guidelines of implementing the system successfully in secondary vocational schools. This paper firstly delineates such terms as profession, professional qualification, professional qualification certificate (PQC) and PQCS, gives a brief account of the basic functions of PQC, describes the basic status of the nationwide establishment of PQCS and authentication of professional techniques, and elaborates the significance of full-scale implementation of the system. Secondly, the paper makes an analysis of the PQCS in secondary vocational schools from the perspectives of Marxism, educational economics, modern education, Western education, and expounds the necessity and feasibility of PQCS implementation in secondary vocational schools in terms of law, policy, educational goals, labour market, present conditions of secondary schools etc. Thirdly, by comparison with the systems in Britain, Germany, Japan, South Korean the paper provides some useful references for the implementation of PQCS in China. The paper gives great priority to the investigation of the status quo of PQCS in secondary vocational schools, and the achievement and problems existing in implementation of the system. Then it recommends some strategies of solutions of the problems for the governments and the schools . Finally, the paper ends with thinking and prospect of implementing the system.